Illinois BCBS Can't Escape $6.6M Claim Repayment Fight

By Lauraann Wood

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois must face a specialty pharmacy's contract suit claiming the insurer illegally failed to pay out more than $6.6 million in prescription claim reimbursements for medicines the pharmacy provided to three insureds in 2021, an Illinois federal judge ruled Monday.

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CFPB Rips Bid To Ax $43M Debt-Relief Win As 'Frivolous'

By Joyce Hanson

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has urged the Seventh Circuit to uphold a more than $43 million enforcement judgment against the former operator of a defunct debt relief provider, defending the agency's lower-court win in a case that has stretched across three presidential terms.

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Sanction Bids In LKQ, GM Patent Case Are Rejected By Judge

By Adam Lidgett

General Motors and a company that got the Federal Circuit to set more flexible standards for assessing whether a design patent is obvious had their requests to sanction each other shot down on Monday in a patent dispute over two vehicle fender designs.

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Split 7th Circ. Backs Ill. County's Win In COVID Vax Bias Suit

By Celeste Bott

The Seventh Circuit in a split decision Monday affirmed a summary judgment win for Cook County, Illinois, in a former hospital pharmacist's suit alleging she was unlawfully fired after she refused a COVID-19 vaccine, with the majority holding the county proved a religious exemption would've posed undue hardship and one dissenting judge saying the case should go to a jury.

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Illinois Powerhouse: Willkie

By Celeste Bott

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has parlayed a six-lawyer Chicago launch in 2020 into an operation with more than 130 attorneys, adding significant transactional practices while scoring high-profile results for clients such as Northwestern University, Google and Saks Global, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2026 Regional Powerhouses. 

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New Dem Bill Aims To Tighten Rules For Immigration Arrests

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Senator Alex Padilla, D-Calif., have introduced a new bill to clarify existing requirements for immigration arrests and codify procedures to prevent unlawful arrests and detentions.

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FTC Touts 'Dismantling' Of Corteva's Pesticide Rebates

By Bryan Koenig

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday touted its new settlement with Corteva Inc. for severely constricting the pesticide company's ability to pay distributors a loyalty rebate in exchange for limiting sales of cheaper generics, the latest in a string of agreements Trump-era antitrust enforcers have struck ending existing claims.

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Mom Blames McDonald's, Franchisee For Shooting Death

By Kelcey Caulder

McDonald's and a franchisee's negligence led to the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old worker at one of the fast-food chain's Georgia restaurants, the youth's mother claimed in a lawsuit filed in Gwinnett County State Court.

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7th Circ. Backs DHS Drug Informant's Conviction

By Parker Quinlan

A former confidential informant for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security who "went rogue" during a narcotics investigation and began selling drugs on the side cannot have his conviction overturned, the Seventh Circuit ruled, saying evidence found in a warrantless search would have been discovered anyway.

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HPE-Juniper Settlement Teaches Key Tunney Act Lessons

A California federal court's recent approval of the U.S. Department of Justice's settlement with Hewlett Packard over its Juniper Networks acquisition offers legal practitioners some crucial lessons, including on unique tech-sector remedies for mergers and acquisitions and the continued viability of the Tunney Act, says Shubha Ghosh at Syracuse University College of Law.

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Senior Lawyers Survey: Tell Us About Your Career

How are senior lawyers adapting to evolving career paths and emerging technologies? Share your perspective in this five-minute survey.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

O'Melveny & Myers LLP and Reed Smith LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit overturned a $140 million class verdict against CenturyLink, holding that the company had a reasonable interpretation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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Arkansas Firm 5th To Seal PE Deal With Uplift Investors

By Tracey Read

Arkansas' largest personal injury law firm is the latest legal entity to ink a deal to take private equity investment using Uplift Investors' associated management services organization.

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AI Mishap Has Judge Questioning 'Our Collective Character'

By Julie Manganis

A California attorney was barred from representing the plaintiffs in a Massachusetts insurance coverage dispute and ordered to pay legal costs of up to $10,000 to opposing counsel, after a federal judge found he relied on "inaccurate and fictitious" case cites and holdings in three filings.

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Tarter Krinsky Faces Suit After Disclosing Data Breach

By Andrea Keckley

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP maintained "intentional opacity" about a recently disclosed cybersecurity attack last year that may have compromised protected health information, a proposed class action alleged in New York federal court.

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A2J At The High Court: Gun Bans, Voting And Civil Remedies

By Marco Poggio

From the right to own semiautomatic rifles to the rules governing voter registration, the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court term will see the justices tackle a broad swath of constitutional and access to justice issues.

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Domino Foods Fights Paul Weiss DQ Bid In Price-Fixing MDL

By Madison Arnold

Domino Foods is pushing back on an attempt to disqualify its counsel from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP in a sugar price-fixing multidistrict litigation, arguing Hershey, J.M. Smucker and other food makers filed the motion as a "strategic attempt to gain tactical advantage" at a critical point in the dispute.

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Duane Morris To Settle Employee's Tax Withholding Claim

By Asha Glover

Duane Morris LLP has agreed to private mediation to settle a proposed class action by an employee who alleged that the firm failed to withhold taxes for workers who were misclassified as partners, according to a notice.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen Glencore Energy sue a refinery for allegedly defrauding it out of more than $236 million worth of crude oil, the former CEO of ankle-tag maker Big Technologies file a defamation claim against the company, and property investment group Hunter Jones hit by a claim from the Financial Conduct Authority. 

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Wilson Sonsini topped a list of law firms that have alumni attorneys working at six of the country's most prominent tech companies. And general counsel at most large companies expect to increase their litigation budgets next year.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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